Chapter 113 – Kate #4

Take a walk in the arms of the princess!
Kate began to tell me about the mysterious walk.

“You can walk around the house while holding me, Mongma-nim! No more, no less, just go around three times!!”
“That, what kind of walk is that?”

You mean you have to go around this wide two-story house three times? It could hardly be called a walk, rather it was closer to physical training to build muscle.

“They say you can treat them comfortably! So pay for the meal-. How much trouble did you have to get up early in the morning to prepare the meal?”
“Wasn’t it free?”
“Where in the world is there anything for free-!”

When I told her to treat me comfortably, she would start a rampage.
As if a dangerous switch had been flipped, Kate looked at me and was panting.
Was there an enormous amount of stuff that had been piled up all this time?
If I leave it alone, it’s going to bite me completely.

“Eat first.”

After thinking about it, I decided to grant Kate’s request. Before we dated her, she would have flatly rejected her, but didn’t Kate give me her maiden last night? A request for a hug is a law that can be granted. I believed in my muscle performance as the golden sun.

“Please chew thoroughly! Huhuhuhuhu.”

Kate munched on her soup at breakneck speed. To keep up with her speed, I had to swallow soup in a hurry. I can’t even chew the crumbs thoroughly.

After the meal -.

“I’ll hug you.”
“Yep-!”

I hugged Kate. Carrying Kate in her arms in her nightgown, she began to walk around. The size of the two-story house was so wide that I couldn’t help but sweat pouring down my body like rain.

I don’t know what kind of dog school this is from this morning.
It must have been poisonous soup.

Kate was looking at me like that, with a very excited expression on her face. Kate murmured as she lifted her arms and wrapped them around her neck.

“I’m controlling the dreamer!!”

“Sister Kate has dominated the dreamer!!!”

A voice full of madness. Not once or twice did she think about letting go of her kate if her backbone pulled while walking. However, with superhuman endurance, I managed to circle the two-story house three times.

The fearsome task of walking in the arms of the princess has been completed safely. Of course, if Kate’s frustration was relieved by taking a walk, that wasn’t the case either.

“Dmongma-sama! Be dreamy like a puppy. Mongmong!!”
“Hey, I’m not even a dog.”
“Dream and dream Oh!”
“Mongmong…”

After almost half a day of listening to a strange request, Kate finally got a bright expression. Her skin was smooth as if all the stress she had accumulated during that time had melted away. I was taken aback by the sight of Kate’s glossy face.

“Good job! Dreammaster!”
“It’s all over, right? I’ll go home now.”
“Are you done yet?”
“Rebecca is waiting for you at home.”
“L-Ms. Rebecca? Then there’s nothing you can do about it.”

Giving Rebecca’s name freed me from Kate.
It’s not about making excuses.
Because I desperately wanted to see the kind-hearted Rebecca at this moment. She wanted to be held in her arms.

“I’ll see you on the day of the promotion, Mongma-nim.”
“The next time we meet is Silver.”

After a light goodbye, I left Kate’s house. Of course, he did not immediately return to the inn. Because there was something I wanted to prepare for Rebecca.

*

When you get permission to go out with Kate.
I definitely made this promise with Rebecca.

-Whatever woman you meet in the future, always think of me

-I want you to think of me first

A day passed, but Rebecca’s words were still ringing in my ears. Even after a very long time, it seems that she will never be able to forget her words. A promise to put yourself first at all times. I had no choice but to worry about how to keep that promise.

‘I’m sure they’ll welcome you back home.’

Rebecca.
If it was a girl with a bright personality, she would be happy to welcome me back home.
However, I wanted to make a special gift for Rebecca. I wanted to soothe Rebecca, who spent the day alone in her room.

“It just can’t be done either.”

Special present!
It was the ring-. Rebecca and I matching matching pairs of rings.
I don’t know if there is a custom of coupling in the Jakarta kingdom, but I thought they would like it if I gave them a ring as a gift.

I made up my mind and immediately set out for Joensu’s jewelry store. Money was nothing to worry about. Because I had recently completed a series of quests, I had plenty of money.

But when I got to the jewelry store entrance, I was blocked by a man in a suit. It was an employee guarding the entrance of a jewelry store.

“There’s a dreamer. You can’t go inside.”
“What? You’re saying that it’s not because it’s a dreamer?”
“It looks poor just by looking at it, but if you’re just going to watch it, just go.”

Only then did I realize why the staff was blocking my way.
Because my outfit is very shabby right now.

A ragged shirt, crumpled pants. What he is wearing are also shabby-looking sandals. Just looking at it, he looks like a beggar, so he must be cut at the entrance.

“Five.”

However, the moment an employee stood in my way, I felt a strange excitement.
I never thought I would personally experience the stories that sounded like gossip on the Internet in my previous life.
I twitched my lips as I looked at the employee.

“Are you judging people by their appearance? You say I look like a beggar?”
“What is it?”

I rummaged through my pockets and held out the money bag toward the employee. The moment I opened the pouch, silver coins radiating from it were revealed.

“Keugh!”
“–I’ll go in.”
“Welcome, guests!”

I patted the employee on the shoulder and entered the jewelry store. I couldn’t help but feel ironic about the staff not blocking me. To experience such rumors in another world.
I went inside and confronted the jeweler’s owner.

“What are you looking for? Nightmare guest.”
“I’m looking to buy a ring. I need a pair of matching rings.”
“There are quite a few of those things. Hehe.”

Even on a continent that was no different from a medieval land, the concept of coupling was firmly established. Soon the jeweler showed me matching rings. Looking at the rings luxuriously decorated with precious stones, I had no choice but to fall into trouble.

“I’m going to give it to someone I’m dating, but don’t you have any good stuff?”
“Someone is dating a dreamer? Isn’t it a master-slave relationship?”

The jeweler looked at my horns and gave me a horrified look. He asked in disbelief as he looked back and forth between me and the rings.

“Are you going to gift a ring to someone you’re dating?”
“I see. Then you don’t know what you’re going to use it for?”
“I thought I was going to have both on my hand.”

What are you going to do with all the couplings on your fingers?
Are you trying to show off that you married Son? It might certainly have meaning for the daughter-in-law who kept away from women and kept their hands close.

“Stop the nonsense and introduce me to a nice ring. Before I leave.”

The jewelry store owner soon handed me a pair of rings.
It was a ring with a transparent, thick pearl attached to it.

“What I recommend to the guests of Mongma is ‘Mermaid’s Tears’.”
“Mermaid’s Tears? Is that the name of your ring?”
“To be precise, it refers to the pearl on the ring. Because these pearls are the tears of the mermaids living on the coast of Moldir. Their tears have hardened into jewels.”

Tears soon become jewels? Even as I looked at the pearls, I wondered if this slim-looking merchant was selling me drugs. However, the pearl hanging from the end of the ring was uniquely transparent and beautiful. Compared to the other pearls in the store.

“So you’re saying that mermaids make a lot of money just by crying? I’m so envious. I want to catch one and raise it too.”
“Mermaid tears are not something that can be obtained so easily. They shed a few drops only when they are truly moved.”
“You mean to be a lover, not an abuser. So why are you recommending this pearl ring?”
“Because mermaid’s tears symbolize eternal love. They say that a couple wearing this pearl ring will never be broken. They say that even when they grow old, they will soon become a good couple.”

Love forever!
It was a word I liked. I didn’t want to part with Rebecca even after a long time. It would have been a welcome if this ring would keep me and Rebecca together.

“How much is it?”
“It’s 10 silver each. The two together will be 20 silver.”

A pair of pearl rings costs 20 silver. It was a pretty big expense, but I never regretted buying the ring. Because his lover, Rebecca, had incomparable value to money.
I generously paid 20 silver to the jewelry store owner.

“Thank you, guest!”
“Looks like something else will come later. I’ll have to match another pair of rings. I’m dating two people.”
“Is it a love triangle?”

The owner of the jewelry store opened his mouth like a crucian carp, perhaps because he was embarrassed. I quietly left the store, leaving the crippled man behind. I put two boxes of rings in my arms and walked around the city.

I wanted to keep my promise to Rebecca.
A promise to think of yourself first.

“Would you like it if I put a ring on your finger?”

I went back to the inn thinking about how to hand this ring over.

After arriving at the inn building.
In the hallway on the third floor, I carefully knocked on Rebecca’s door.
Soon, Rebecca’s voice echoed from inside.

– Who are you?

“It’s me, Rebecca. I’m back now.”

-Ah, Luke!

Footsteps rang out, and soon the door opened. Rebecca appeared in front of me in a white shirt. The moment I awkwardly shook her hand, Rebecca opened her arms and hugged me tightly.

“You came back quickly! Did you take good care of the blonde nun?”

Red hair tickled the nape of my neck. As I watched Rebecca bury her face in my chest, I couldn’t help but feel her heart thump. From the moment we met, Kate took care of her.

“Of course.”
“I didn’t know you’d come back in a day. I’m sure you didn’t treat me badly, right? He’s the person I’m going to be with from now on. If you make him cry, I’ll scold you.”
“Why are you mad when Kate is crying?”
“You’re using that as an excuse to get close? Originally, women get closer by talking behind their backs.”
“That’s right.”
“You may come inside.”

Rebecca opened her door wide, and I followed her into her room. Soon, as I watched Rebecca perched on her bed, I fidgeted with her ring case in her pocket.
Rebecca looked up at me with a puzzled expression as I stood alone in the room.

“Why are you standing? Uncomfortable.”

Originally, I was going to hand over the ring when the mood was right, but when I saw Rebecca, those grandiose plans became a blank sheet in an instant. I just wanted to see Rebecca happy. I took a deep breath and opened my mouth.

“I have a present for you.”
“A gift? Strawberry pie?”

I got down on one knee and took out the ring case from my pocket. When the lid of the case was opened, the pearl ring contained in it was revealed, emitting a glow.

“Bar, ring!”

Rebecca, who was sitting on the bed, jumped up from the spot. She groaned and Rebecca, who fell on the bed, opened her mouth in surprise.

“It’s so pretty! Are you really giving this to me?”
“The pearls on the ring are from mermaid’s tears. They say she symbolizes eternal love. I thought it would be nice to wear them together with you.”

I pulled out another ring case from her pocket and showed it to Rebecca. Two pearl rings radiating the same brilliance appeared side by side.

“Hey, eternal love? Wearing rings together?”

Rebecca’s face turned red.
Rebecca looked at me with a trembling expression.

“You, you, you can’t.”
“Yeah, that’s unlikely.”

It is a coupling prepared for a precious lover.
It was the moment I was about to confess.
Suddenly, Rebecca’s voice rang out.

“Are you going to marry me?!”